The New Psychology of Depression Podcast
1) Mindfulness and the brain
In this final episode Professor Mark Williams and Danny Penman discuss how imaging studies show that Mindfulness may have numerous profoundly positive effects on the brain. Creative Commons Attributi...Show More
2) Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy on trial
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) is especially good for people who have suffered the most debilitating forms of depression. The evidence for its effectiveness is overwhelming and continues t...Show More
3) Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy: A new approach to treating depression
Mindfulness therapy is an extremely effective treatment preventing relapse in depression. But what does it entail and how does it work? Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK:...Show More
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy: A new approach to treating depression
37:11 | Nov 14th, 2011
4) Can treatments such as Cognitive Therapy help?
Depression tends to return even if it has been successfully treated. Scientists now understand why this happens and have developed therapies that reduce the risks of relapse and help lift the burden o...Show More
5) How is depression treated?
Doctors and psychiatrists once believed that patterns of thinking played little or no role in depression, but this is now known to be wrong. Professor Williams and Dr Danny Penman discuss how the trea...Show More
6) What is depression?
Depression is expected to impose the second biggest health burden globally by 2020; greater even than heart disease, arthritis and many forms of cancer. Professor Mark Williams and Dr Danny Penman dis...Show More